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Tutorial; Billie’s Book Ties

In today’s post a great little tutorial for making Book ties. I’ve been making these for years and they are really handy. You can use them for book marks, for holding your pages down while you sketch outdoors and make them as functional or fancy as you like. Great for last-minute gifts too.

Billie's Book Ties

You Will Need

Sketch book or whatever style and size of book you want to use your book tie with

Cotton cord or flat shoe lace. I found UN Waxed cord or lace gave a better hold. The waxed ones seem to slip to easily.

Beads if you wish to add decoration for a more elaborate design

PVA glue if using cord instead of shoe laces

Scissors

Method

This is definitely one of those tutorials best done on film! Trust me these are super easy to do, and really quick to make as well.

Options/Added Extras

Depending on the cord style you use, how about adding some more decorative beads to use the book ties as book marks and page holders.

Try them using flat shoe laces for your art journals, they are great for keeping your place, or keeping your book closed too.

Links

This tutorial was meant to go up last week, but You Tube put the original soundtrack back on after I dumped it. All you could hear were the budgies and DH clucnking around 😦 Have to re upload it and then it takes 36 hours to ‘settle’ to quality in You Tube 😦 Hope I can resolve this or the online class is in jeopordy!

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Will try again to watch the tutorial, the message is telling me it is private – what are you up to???? 😀
Love the look of the ties/bookmarks. Did you do the cover of the journal? It is lovely…what did you use? It looks like the scene stamps. Love those stamps but need more practice with them 🙂

DOH I’m such a nit!! Thanks for letting me know Lynn. I have to upload ahead of time as I can’t always get a connection to the internet. YT don’t let you schedule like WP do, so I set a film to private, then need to remember to go in the night before its due to go live and ‘publish’ the film on YT.

Guess who had a senior moment and forgot? That would be me then, my back kicked off this morning and I totally forgot about the film.

Good job you reminded me 😉

The book was a bought one, its a coptic bound book which is the kind I use, lovely isn’t it. I write out knitting patterns in that one 🙂 I think the company that makes them is Paperblanks, you can sometimes get them on Amazon, this is one in the Tao series. Check out the Paperblanks website, their books are stunning.

Glad I spotted that then Billie:) Senior moments is becoming my middle name! Sorry to hear your back is not behaving; it’s all this damp weather.
I must have a look at the Paperblanks website then…thanks for the info 🙂

[…] The closure on the book features Billie’s Book ties that I shared a video for recently. I added bead spacers in place of actual beads, as they were such a nice brass colour, they went well will the books colouring. If you would like to see how to make the ties, check out the video Billie’s Book Ties. […]

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